On 16-Mar-00 Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Sascha Graeber wrote:
I am thinking about getting rid of my OS/2 partition (my major OS until SuSE 6.0). Does anybody here know if there is an emulator (like wine for windows) that would allow me to run OS/2 apps under Linux ? Since IBM more or less devoted themselves to Linux there might be some development ?!?
I have an OS/2 partition (on my secondary computer) that I haven't used for over six months. What are you using in OS/2 for which there isn't a better version available under Linux?
I'm dubious that anyone these days would find it worthwhile to provide any kind of OS/2 support, seeing as how IBM pretty much dumped it. About its only remaining use, I guess, is in legacy servers. So IBM hasn't been interested in client, i.e., end-user, programs for quite some time.
Paul Abrahams
I wouldn't say OS/2 is dead. Even though you, and even myself hardly use OS/2
anymore, its not. In businesses it is still very much in use. My company is
just now installing an Automated Operator/Voice-Mail system running on OS/2.
OS/2 is very much in use for Cash Registers at many businesses.
True, OS/2 is pretty much dead for home use now.
Myself, I just recently cut back on the size of my OS/2 partitions, pulled
Win-OS/2 support out of it, and installed Win98 to replace my DOS/Win3.1
partition. But I still have OS/2. I rarely use it true--but it still is my
platform choice at present for faxing (haven't been able to get that working
under Linux yet).
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Arlen Carlson